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Reference number

SM Adam volume 42/83

Purpose

[12] Finished drawing for the second storey of a house with mezzanine storey, c1784, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the first storey of a five-by-five-bay building, with one-by-three-bay wings to the east and west as SM Adam volume 42/83a, but with a mezzanine level in the east and west wings containing further bedrooms and dressing rooms

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Bed Chamber Story- / (and in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) of Doctor John Turtons House at Brasted Kent / No. 24. / Staircase / Bed Chamber / Servants Bed room / Dressing room / Mezzanine / Passage / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Passage / Principal Staircase / Bed Chamber / Mezzanine / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Dressing room / Servants Bed room / Bed Chamber / Powdering room and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • c1784
    c1784

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, pink and cerulean blue washes within a single ruled border on laid paper (493 x 362)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with part-title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Verso

8

Watermark

J KOOL surmounted by fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche / J KOOL surmounted by fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 4
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 106, 122
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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